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Ex-medical doctor Norman Seeff emigrated from South Africa to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as a photographer, filmmaker and designer. Three years later, he relocated to Los Angeles as Art Director at United Artists Records, where his album cover designs and photography received many Grammy nominations.

Ebet Roberts discusses her work, from the emergence of punk rock in the late 1970s through the present, and offers insights into her club, concert, and studio portraits of everyone from the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley to Madonna and the Rolling Stones.

Danny Clinch discusses his career as a photographer and director, including his three Grammy Award nominations for Bruce Springsteen’s music video Devils & Dust, John Mayer’s live concert film Where the Light Is and Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite’s mu

Raeanne Rubenstein shares what it takes to capture unique images of country’s honkytonk heroes, revealing some of the hilarious, unforgettable and totally true experiences she’s had with the stars of country music.

Tim Davis and Michael McCall discuss the photography of Walden S. Fabry and Elmer Williams, how the Country Music Hall of Fall of Fame and Museum acquired their collections and the archival process that has gone into digitizing and preserving them.

Jeff Lipsky compares and contrasts his approach on photographing country artists in Nashville and celebrities in Los Angeles, sharing his personal anecdotes on interacting with notable personalities such as Keith Urban, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood.

Amelia Davis presents a slide presentation of Jim Marshall’s extraordinary life’s work that documented music icons and national culture, from the 1950’s North Beach jazz scene in San Francisco through the turmoil of the 60’s and the rock and roll explosio